{"id":13103,"date":"2020-04-15T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T13:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=13103"},"modified":"2020-04-14T15:15:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:15:24","slug":"tibet-almond-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/tibet-almond-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibet Almond Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a great \u201coff label\u201d use of an old product for a completely different application that a guitar player turned me on to years ago.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/tibet-almond-st\/\">Zenith Tibet Almond Stick<\/a> is an oil- and cleaner-impregnated plug that comes as a tightly rolled up cloth in a metal can.  Its original use is to \u201cefface 1,000 scratches from pianos\u2014radios\u2014furniture\u2014etc. It\u2019s amazing!\u201d I use it to refresh old strings on guitars, banjo and mandolins. Just swipe the stick along the strings, then pinch each string with a rag and slide along its length. All the nasty bits of rust, dirt, and finger cheese come right off. It\u2019s especially good at helping to remove the crud that get trapped in the coils of wound strings and restores that brilliant \u201cnew string\u201d sound. I also like the art deco inspired litho steel tube it comes in. <\/p>\n<p>By the way, it will last forever: my 40-year-old stick is still going strong! <\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refresh old strings on guitars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35885,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103\/revisions\/35885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}